Principal Software Engineer-Backend | Redmond, WA

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  • Location: Redmond, WA

  • Company: Microsoft

platform for Microsoft internal partners using the documentation recall and reranking backend service suite. As a team, we manage one of the world's largest distributed systems and have experienced great success in building efficient large scale distributed systems for search.

This team builds reliable ranking and caption serving platform for Bing Search. Within WWE platform, we are the Index Serve and query alternation team and we have the exciting responsibility of trying to tackle these challenges. As a team, we are trying to build the most agile, performant, stable, experientable yet efficient index serving platform. On this platform, relevance techniques can be quickly implemented,

iterated, qualified and flighted to evaluate their customer impacts with convenience while full funnel debuggability. The same platform also provides all the cutting edged techniques and utilities, like deep learning, machine learning, LLM, Java Script, C# rankers.

It has the most advanced AI toolset for our scientists to innovate, and for our products to serve the most relevant documents. WWE platform team has a rare opportunity to simplify the serving stack, to serve the biggest index with the most efficient way, and to drive up the relevance innovations with advanced deep learning and Large Language model techniques. The agility of engineering and deployment also presents as a big

challenge when handling such a complex system. As Bing embraces the newest LLM innovations, the need for a platform to build up AI intelligence is becoming bigger.

In this role you will drive and deliver the cutting-edge techniques such as Large Language Models (LLMs), Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) by collaborating with AI data scientists. Qualifications: Required/Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, Java Script, or Python OR equivalent experience. 3+ years of experience in highly available, reliable and distributed systems Preferred Qualifications: Experience in C++, systems level programming and highly available systems is highly preferred.

Experience on high-performance computing (e. g. cache/memory optimization, high-performance GPU programming, compiler-based optimization, fine-grained parallel library, and runtime) or distributed systems (e. g. communication optimization, network architecture design, network programming) is a plus. Capable of quantitatively implementing and qualifying a solution in a distributed environment with Dev Ops model Experiences on building Machine Learning/Deep Learning systems is a plus.

Experience on performance analysis and optimization for both CPUs and GPUs, as well as good understanding on software-hardware codesign, is a plus. Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U. S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $173,200 - $282,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Find additional benefits and pay information here: careers. /us/en/us-corporate-pay Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, interaction (including pregnancy), interactionual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. Responsibilities: We are looking for Principal Software engineers with a proven background in: Agile service feature development. Innovative algorithm design for best performance, latency, scalability, and efficiency.

Service performance profiling and scaling-up; and Advanced distributed service debugging. Collaborating across multiple teams to design and deliver the solutions. Requisition #: 1668118pca3lyuhf

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